Non-linear arrival time tomography

Annali di Geofisica

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 85-97

  Papazachos, Constantinos B ^a   Nolet, Guust ^b  

^a Institute of Engineering Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Thessaloniki   (Greece)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D ray tracing; Arrival times; Bending; Graph theory; Non linear inversion

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; INVERSION; RAY TRACING; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031448345     PISSN: 03652556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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